The door to the Sistine Chapel closed as the cardinals begin the process of choosing the new pope. The conclave starting ...

The cardinals participating in the most geographically diverse conclave in the faith’s 2,000-year history took just one round of voting Wednesday evening.

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday began the ...

As the papal conclave gets underway in Vatican City, Holy Cross Catholic Church pastor Father Noah Carter recalls his ...

A group of 133 Cardinals are making their way from their rooms into the Sistine Chapel where they will have no contact with ...

After more than three hours of intense seclusion, black smoke puffed out from the chapel’s chimney — signaling that the ...

I think that one of the principal challenges that the new pope will have is that we live in a world that’s increasingly ...

Follow live coverage as Catholic cardinals elect the next Pope in the highly secretive conclave to lead the Vatican following ...

The first day of the conclave ended without a decision on the next pope. Here's what's next for the cardinal electors.

Gathering under the soaring frescoes of Renaissance masters and a blanket of intense seclusion, 133 red-robed cardinals made a solemn procession into the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican on Wednesday to ...

Thick black smoke emerged on Wednesday from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel in a sign that cardinals had failed to elect a ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The great doors of the Sistine Chapel shut Wednesday after the cry of “extra omnes” — Latin for “all out” ...